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Burnsville's Garden of Eden: a tranquil field of grass for Muslim burials
Highway 13 in Burnsville is in squarely suburban territory, with plenty of opportunities to pull off for Home Depot or Taco Bell. But it’s still far enough out of the core cities to retain vestiges of...
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Climbing the ladder: Exploring how (and why) the Twin Cities fares in upward...
From time immemorial, social scientists have been trying to figure out what factors allow a child to escape poverty and grow up to be successful: nature, nurture, schooling, race, classmates, religion...
View ArticleChris Colabello needs a chance to show if Triple-A numbers are for real
Chris Colabello's first taste of the majors was brief, but now he's back with the Twins for what figures to be the 29-year-old's first and perhaps only extended chance. Undrafted out of college,...
View ArticleMany counties jumping on the $10 wheelage tax bandwagon, but some just say no
Last week Ramsey and Hennepin counties agreed to add the new $10 wheelage tax to annual registration costs for most vehicles, and many, but not all, counties around the state are following...
View ArticleMnDOT considers: Repair or replace the downtown Red Wing bridge over the...
The Eisenhower Bridge over the Mississippi River in downtown Red Wing is more than 50 years old, so Minnesota Transportation Department officials continue to plan for its future.They're holding another...
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Smokers find 'plain-pack' cigarettes less satisfying, Australia finds
plainpacks.org.nzPlain cigarette packagingLast December, Australia became the first country to require that cigarettes be sold in plain brown packaging. Under the new law, the brand name of the...
View ArticleIslamic group says speaker with anti-Muslim views shouldn't speak at Tea...
The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations doesn't want Brigitte Gabriel — who, they say, has made anti-Muslim remarks in the past — to speak at a event to be held at the public...
View ArticleRoyal babies alert: Mauers have twin girls
So where’s the cannon fire and queen’s horsemen and Matt Lauer? Royalty has been renewed … . The PiPress story says, “Minnesota Twins catcher Joe Mauer's wife gave birth to twins Wednesday morning,...
View ArticleWhat to take from a new Kline-Obermueller poll
WASHINGTON — The liberal House Majority PAC has released a new poll it says shows an opening for Democrat Mike Obermueller in his 2nd District rematch against Rep. John Kline.The poll shows Kline with...
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Challenges threaten Minneapolis-St. Paul's image as a livable place
This is the second of two stories exploring strategies for ensuring the continuing vitality of the Minneapolis-St. Paul region. They are adapted from a report for the McKnight Foundation’s Food for...
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Minnesota student groups wary of loan interest rate deal
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers from both parties and officials from the White House on down say students are the ultimate winners under a compromise student loan interest rate plan passed by the Senate on...
View ArticlePublic doesn't much like any branch of federal government
For the first time in nearly three decades that the Pew polling organization has been asking the question, fewer than 50 percent of Americans express approval of the job the U.S. Supreme Court is...
View ArticlePolice abuses fuel outrage in Ukraine
KYIV, Ukraine — Halyna Dushenko remembers the night of June 13, 2006 particularly well.It was the last time she saw her son, Serhiy, alive.“He went to a bar to meet with his former classmates,” she...
View ArticleWhat's going on in Syria? A stepped-back look
With at least 1,200 rebel factions, an array of foreign actors backing the regime, and third parties on both sides driven by divergent motives, making sense of the war in Syria has become an...
View ArticleEgyptian army chief calls for help to fight 'terrorism' of the Muslim...
The head of Egypt's armed forces today called for mass protests to give him a mandate to confront “violence and terrorism,” escalating the military's confrontation with the Muslim Brotherhood three...
View ArticleAs Poland's fracking future turns cloudy, so does Europe's
It was only two years ago that Poland was positioning itself at the forefront of a shale gas revolution for Europe.Estimated to have more untapped reserves than any other European Union nation, Poland...
View ArticleSenate urged to close Guantánamo and bring terror suspects to US
Terror suspects being held at the Guantánamo prison camp should be sent home or brought to the United States for trial or continued open-ended detention in American prisons, a Senate subcommittee was...
View ArticleSpain train derailment kills at least 78; 7 days mourning declared
A high-speed train ran off the tracks outside the northern Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela on Wednesday, killing at least 78 people, officials said.So far 73 bodies have been recovered from the...
View ArticleA current snapshot of the Minnesota Orchestra, by the numbers
On the heels of this week’s news that peace envoy and former U.S. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell will help (or try) to bring an end to the Minnesota Orchestra labor dispute, let’s take a look...
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Mondale delighted Caroline Kennedy is Obama's choice as ambassador to Japan
Former Vice President Walter Mondale is delighted that Caroline Kennedy is President Obama's choice to be the next ambassador to Japan, a job Mondale held for nearly four years under President Bill...
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